GameHub PC Skill
I had the chance to build an Alexa for PC skill and I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the voice interaction. Over the past 30 days I started exploring how to build skills for Alexa on PC and, at the beginning, I found myself outside my comfort zone. From a technical perspective, the PC Skills Framework (PCSF) library is an excellent developer tool that lets Alexa skill writers create a PC Skill—a hybrid cloud/PC model where vocabulary, utterance, and intent models are run by the Alexa Voice Service.
With help of the PC Skills Framework library it enabled my team to leverage rapid prototyping the Gamehub PC Skill which focuses on enhancing gaming experiences for gaming enthusiasts. Thus, we created Gamehub skill— a voice assistant for any game (We used our own game called GameHub) which allows the player to perform GameHub Skill actions, all with just voice commands communicated with the Alexa* for PC.
Implementing this PC voice assistant Skill will not only simplify controls in the PC games, but also act as a perfect complementary input method for PC gaming enthusiasts as it can be integrated with any PC game of the user’s choice.
For full detailed information on how to get started on implementing GameHub Skill:
Prerequisites are as follows:
1. Amazon Web Services* Setup for PC Skills
2. PC Skills Framework API Documentation
3. Start Implementing GameHub Skill
Happy Skill Writing!